Stop, before you blurt out “no”

I was curious to see what Joyce’s hair might look like if I’d tried to draw the hairstyle (I think) I was attempting here in my current style. Going into it, I was worried, hrrngh, I hope I don’t like it too much, ‘cuz I don’t want to end up giving Joyce a haircut in Dumbing of Age. If I don’t like it later, Joyce isn’t going to ever grow old enough to have her hair grow out again, so. I hand out hairstyle changes pretty sparingly in DoA for this specific reason. It has to be something I’m willing to draw for basically forever.

BUT NEVER FEAR.

It actually ends up a little too close to Dorothy’s, and while it might be a little funny to see Joyce kinda Single White Female her… nooooooo.

Her hair is slightly shorter, and poofs out dramatically less at the bottom. Basically, her current DoA haircut- based on her old Roomies haircut- is round on top but then curves out at the bottom and sides, while the alternate hairstyle pictured is a single smooth curve, if that makes since.

Sorta like the difference between:
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Also, in the original It’s Walky strip pictured, her hair has more rectangular sorts of corners:

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…which is something present-day David Willis mostly seems to avoid. A similar thing is noticeable with Jason, who has square hair in the old strips but round hair on the redraw on the logo at the top of the site (and in DoA, later It’s Walky, etc).

Analysis aside, it’s neat to see an alternate look and a sort of recreation of a bit of old It’s Walky material, but I do agree that Joyce’s regular DoA hair looks a little better.